March 7th Events |
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| March 7th, 2007 (March 07 2007) | Event | British House of Commons votes to make the upper chamber, the House of Lords, 100% elected. | |
| March 7th, 2005 (March 07 2005) | Event | Mass protest outside the National Assembly of Kuwait building for women s voting rights in Kuwait. | |
| March 7th, 2004 (March 07 2004) | Event | New Democracy wins the national elections in Greece. | |
| March 7th, 1996 (March 07 1996) | Event | The first democratically elected Palestinian parliament is formed. | |
| March 7th, 1996 (March 07 1996) | Event | The Hubble Space Telescope makes the first pictures of the surface of Pluto. | |
| March 7th, 1994 (March 07 1994) | Event | The Supreme Court of the United States rules in Campbell v. Acuff-Rose Music, Inc.that parodies of an original work are generally covered by the doctrine of fair use. | |
| March 7th, 1989 (March 07 1989) | Event | Iran and the United Kingdom break diplomatic relations after a row over Salman Rushdie and his controversial novel. | |
| March 7th, 1989 (March 07 1989) | Event | The State Council of the People s Republic of China declares martial law in Lhasa, Tibet. | Martial Quotes |
| March 7th, 1988 (March 07 1988) | Event | Colombia becomes a member of the Berne Convention copyright treaty. | |
| March 7th, 1984 (March 07 1984) | Event | The United States attacks San Juan del Sur in Nicaragua. | |
| March 7th, 1969 (March 07 1969) | Event | Golda Meir nominated by the Labor party as the first female Prime Minister of Israel. | Golda Meir Quotes |
| March 7th, 1968 (March 07 1968) | Event | The BBC broadcasts the news for the first time in color on television. | |
| March 7th, 1965 (March 07 1965) | Event | In Selma, Alabama, State troopers and local law enforcement forcefully break up a group of 600 civil rights marchers. The event was televised and was dubbed Bloody Sunday. | |
| March 7th, 1951 (March 07 1951) | Event | Korean War: Operation RipperIn Korea, United Nations troops led by General Matthew Ridgeway begin an assault against Chinese forces. | |
| March 7th, 1950 (March 07 1950) | Event | Cold War: The Soviet Union issues a statement denying that Klaus Fuchs served as a Soviet spy. | |
| March 7th, 1948 (March 07 1948) | Event | The Dodecanese islands officially become part of Greece again, ending the Italian rule. | |
| March 7th, 1947 (March 07 1947) | Event | The Kuomintang and Communist Party of China resume full-fledged Civil War. | |
| March 7th, 1945 (March 07 1945) | Event | World War II: American troops seize the Ludendorff Bridge over the Rhine River at Remagen, establish a bridgehead on Germany soil and in desperate fighting begin to establish a lodgement. This event shakes up the whole Western Front and greatly hastens the end of WW-II. | |
| March 7th, 1936 (March 07 1936) | Event | World War II (Prelude to): In violation of the Locarno Pact and the Treaty of Versailles, Germany reoccupies the Rhineland. | |
| March 7th, 1926 (March 07 1926) | Event | The first transatlantic telephone call was made from New York City to London. | |
| March 7th, 1918 (March 07 1918) | Event | World War I: Finland forms an alliance with Germany. | |
| March 7th, 1914 (March 07 1914) | Event | Prince William of Wied arrives in Albania to begin his reign. | |
| March 7th, 1912 (March 07 1912) | Event | Roald Amundsen first announces to the world that his expedition has reached the South Pole, though they had arrived on December 14, 1911. | |
| March 7th, 1887 (March 07 1887) | Event | North Carolina State University is founded by the North Carolina General Assembly. | |
| March 7th, 1876 (March 07 1876) | Event | Alexander Graham Bell is granted a patent for an invention he calls the telephone (patent # 174,465). | Alexander Graham Bell Quotes |
| March 7th, 1862 (March 07 1862) | Event | American Civil War: Battle of Pea RidgeUnion forces led by General Samuel Curtis defeat Confederate troops under General Earl Van Dorn at Pea Ridge in northwestern Arkansas. | |
| March 7th, 1850 (March 07 1850) | Event | United States Senator Daniel Webster gives his "Seventh of March" speech in which he endorses the Compromise of 1850 in order to prevent a possible civil war. | Daniel Webster Quotes |
| March 7th, 1848 (March 07 1848) | Event | The Great mahele (land division) is signed in Hawaii. | |
| March 7th, 1827 (March 07 1827) | Event | Brazil marines sail up the Rio Negro (Argentina) and attack the temporary naval base of Carmen de Patagones, Argentina. They are defeated by the local citizens. | |
| March 7th, 1827 (March 07 1827) | Event | Shrigley Abduction: Ellen Turner, a wealthy heiress in Cheshire, England is abducted by Edward Gibbon Wakefield, a future politician in colonial New Zealand. | Ted Turner Quotes |
| March 7th, 1815 (March 07 1815) | Event | Napoleon I of France meets troops of the Fifth Regiment sent by Louis XVIII at Grenoble, and convinces them to join him on his march to Paris. | |
| March 7th, 1814 (March 07 1814) | Event | Napoleon I of France wins the Battle of Craonne. | |
| March 7th, 1799 (March 07 1799) | Event | Napoleon I of France captures Jaffa in Palestine and his troops proceed to kill more than 2,000 Albanian captives. | |
| March 7th, 1799 (March 07 1799) | Event | The Royal Institution is founded. | |
| March 7th, 1798 (March 07 1798) | Event | The French army enters Rome: the birth of the Roman Republic. | |
| March 7th, 1277 (March 07 1277) | Event | Condemnation of 219 philosophical and theological theses by Stephen Tempier, Bishop of Paris. | Philo Quotes |
| March 7th, 0321 (March 07 0321) | Event | Roman Emperor Constantine I decrees that the dies Solis Invicti (sun-day) is the day of rest in the Empire. | |
| March 7th, 0161 (March 07 0161) | Event | Roman Emperor Antoninus Pius dies and is succeeded by co-Emperors Marcus Aurelius and Lucius Verus, an unprecedented political arrangement in the Roman Empire. | Marcus Aurelius Quotes |
